4 THE NAVY OCEAN SCIENCE PROGRAM 



basic concepts of several of today's major weapons systems. 

 Members of this group included many of the same scientists 

 who in offices, laboratories, or ships cooperated to test the 

 scientific feasibility of these new concepts. Some of them even 

 continued to assist as scientific feasibility changed to engi- 

 neering development. 



In pursuing this primary objective of enhancing our national 

 security, it has been recognized that national security must be 

 interpreted in its broadest sense — economic, political, social — 

 since in a world without educational and economic well-being, or 

 in a hungry world, there is no security. In developing the neces- 

 sary ocean-science program to meet its objectives, the Navy has 

 thus assumed a broader responsibility by undertaking to serve 

 other national interests in areas where the Navy's capabilities 

 and the national needs coincide. The Navy Ocean Science Pro- 

 gram has since its inception actively sought to make the results 

 of its endeavors available to all who require them and when- 

 ever possible to work on mutual problems with similarly in- 

 terested agencies and groups. 



ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT 



The management of the Navy Ocean Science Program is under 

 the direction of the Assistant Oceanographer of the Navy for 

 Ocean Science, whose primary duty is Chief of Naval Research. 

 A new management structure for the Navy's overall ocean- 

 ography program was recently established by instructions from 

 the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations. 

 Under this structure, the Oceanographer of the Navy has been 

 given the responsibility for the entire oceanography program of 

 the Navy. He reports directly to the Chief of Naval Operations 

 for operational matters and receives policy guidance from the 

 Assistant Secretary of the Navy (R&D). The Oceanographer of 

 the Navy is assisted in the management of the Navy's program 

 by the Chief of Naval Research in his collateral assignment as 

 Assistant Oceanographer for Ocean Science and by the Deputy 



